I call this approach "waiting for a sucker". I do not personally practice it, and sell everything a little below market prices.
I think about buying/selling in the way that I make money when I buy. i On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Kirk Wallace <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 09:53 -0500, Igor Chudov wrote: > > My guess is that it is not worth $20k. At best it would be worth $14k or > so. > > > > Lots of dreamers on ebay asking for a pie in the sky. > > > > I have never been like that and I despise this approach to business. > > > > That said, if i can fix it in a few hours and by throwing some minimal > money > > at it, I will try. > > > > i > > I worked for a used telecomm equipment dealer for a while. At first, I > thought his prices were way out of line, but you just need one call from > the one in a million customer that absolutely needs, let's say, that > last 1980's 100MB hard drive with Mitel integration on it, (that we > effectively bought for a $1) to make a $1000 sale. And, the customer > will thank you for it when it arrives on site, installed and working, > over night. > > One tactic, if time and space is not a problem, is to just sit on the > machine until the right customer comes along. Then sell as-is, > refurbished, or part out as needed. Or do a quick sale to someone on > this list. > > Another option, develop a product or service that will allow you, or > someone you contract to house and/or run the machine, a means to pay for > the machine and rebuild. But, also realize your perfectly good machine > will most likely have no generic resale value. > > It depends on the most likely customer; desperate 1/1,000,000, or > yourself to keep and use. I think it really helps to have this worked > out first (,but I myself haven't gotten it right yet). > > -- > Kirk Wallace > http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ > http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html > California, USA > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > FREE DOWNLOAD - uberSVN with Social Coding for Subversion. > Subversion made easy with a complete admin console. Easy > to use, easy to manage, easy to install, easy to extend. > Get a Free download of the new open ALM Subversion platform now. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FREE DOWNLOAD - uberSVN with Social Coding for Subversion. Subversion made easy with a complete admin console. Easy to use, easy to manage, easy to install, easy to extend. Get a Free download of the new open ALM Subversion platform now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
